Murexsul octogonus, or the octagonal murex, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Genus: | Murexsul |
| Species: | M. octogonus
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Murex peruvianus G. B. Sowerby II, 1841 (invalid: junior homonym of Murex peruvianus Lamarck, 1816)
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Description edit
The length of the shell attains 35.6 mm.
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Distribution edit
This species is known only from North Island, New Zealand.
References edit
- ^ a b Murexsul octogonus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 24 April 2010.
- Finlay, H.J. (1927). Additions to the recent molluscan fauna of New Zealand. No. 2. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute. 57: 485-487.
- Ponder, W. F. 1968. Nomenclatural notes on some New Zealand rachiglossan gastropods with descriptions of five new species. Records of the Dominion Museum, 6(4):29-47.
- Powell A W B, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
- Glen Pownall, New Zealand Shells and Shellfish, Seven Seas Publishing Pty Ltd, Wellington, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-85467-054-8
- Maxwell, P.A. (2009). Cenozoic Mollusca. Pp 232-254 in Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.
External links edit
- Quoy J.R.C. & Gaimard J.P. (1832-1835). Voyage de découvertes de l'"Astrolabe" exécuté par ordre du Roi, pendant les années 1826-1829, sous le commandement de M. J. Dumont d'Urville. Zoologie
- Sowerby, G. B., II. (1841). Descriptions of some new species of Murex, principally from the collection of Hugh Cuming, Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 8 ("1840"): 137-147
- Smith, M. (1940). Two new marine molluscs from Japan. The Nautilus. 54(2): 43, pl. 2
- Marshall, B. A.; Burch, K. W. (2000). The New Zealand Recent species of Muricopsis Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1882 (Gastropoda: Muricidae). The Nautilus. 114: 18-29
- MNHN, Paris: syntype
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